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Monday, June 10, 2013

Edward Snowden is the big news of the week. I have some advice for all
concerned, consider the basic facts in evidence that are not
in dispute:Edward Snowden violated federal law and his oath.Edward Snowden leaked a highly classified security programEdward Snowden fled to a Communist Country our single biggest
rival/enemy
No matter what you think of the NSA Prism programs, Mr. Snowden's
motivations or even the necessity of the exposure of this scandal, these facts
are not in dispute and I suggest people be very careful before declaring him Horatius
at the Bridge.
Meanwhile is other longstanding scandal news...
More and more calls have been coming for Eric Holder’s resignation, it’s
been suggested that Obama is keeping his as a lightning rod but this is a
foolish move.
The professional media left (read the MSM) is indifferent to the
IRS, scandal and Benghazi as much as they were about Fast and Furious but the
AP/Fox story hits them where they live. As long as Holder is there the
Obama scandals will get coverage, but once Holder is gone the media will
portray this as the president taking action and move along.
I’m really surprised the White House hasn’t figured that out yet.
For a while the defenders of the administration have been running around in
circles coming up with every possible explanation as to why each and every scandal
is no big deal. Via Mark Steyn at NRO we see Senator Mark Kirk has managed
to get down to the nitty gritty.Here’s another congressional-subcommittee transcript highlight of the
week. Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois asks the attorney general if he’s spying on
members of Congress and thereby giving the executive branch leverage over the
legislative branch. Eric Holder answers:“With all due respect, senator, I don’t think this is an appropriate
setting for me to discuss that issue.”Senator Kirk responded that “the correct answer would be, ‘No, we stayed
within our lane and I’m assuring you we did not spy on members of Congress.’”
For some reason, the attorney general felt unable to say that. So I think we
all know what the answer to the original question really is.
That’s what it comes down to, if the administration could answer these
questions in an honest and straightforward way they would.
That they can’t continues to speak volumes, the question becomes are
American’s listening.

I’ve been amazed at the reliable playing of the Race card by defenders of
the president as well, a card that many people believed would be the Obama
administration would be the end of this kind of thing. (I’m even more
amazed that people actually believed this would be the case)
Politically it’s not foolish, this card continues to resonate with the black
community who has been made to believe that the only reason the right opposes
Obama is because of his skin color.
No matter where the evidence leads this community is not going to believe
there is cause to blame this president. I suspect if we had Obama on film
wearing a White Hood and burning a cross the black community would stand behind
him.

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Speaking of the Race card we are seeing it being played AGAINST Gabriel
Gomez by a
Spanish language newspaper in Boston. They suggest that Gomez is
Latino in Name only.
Think about that, what about Gabriel Gomez is insufficiently Hispanic, his
command of English, his success as a Navy pilot, as a Navy Seal, his success in
business.
Perhaps if he was on EBT he would be acceptable?
If that article and that argument had been made by a conservative
publication that media organ would have been accused of racism,...and they’d be
right.

I’m also convinced that my friend Michael Graham is dead wrong concerning
this election, he is planning on staying home as are a lot of his
listeners rather than vote for Gabriel Gomez.
Gabriel Gomez is not running against Michael Sullivan anymore, he’s not
running against Ted Cruz or Sarah Palin, he’s running against Ed Markey.
If conservatives willing to stay home and allow Ed Markey to be elected then
we deserve what we get, just like the millions of conservatives that stayed
home are to blame for Barack Obama.
How’s that working out for ya?

Unemployment is up to 7.6%. The
left is blaming Sequester for this and the poor economy.
For four years George Bush was to blame for the Obama Economy and now
Sequester is being blamed in year five.
Barack Obama is the ultimate affirmative action hire, he will never be held
responsible for anything as long as he is in the white house.

The Santa Monica shooting is going to lead to another attempt to grab guns.
Yeah after the IRS scandal and the NSA and PRISM people are really going to
be anxious to be disarmed by their government.

The
upcoming gas tax increase in Massachusetts along with it being indexed to
inflation gives yet another reason for the business minded to flee the
state. I’m surprised Rick Perry hasn’t sent a thank you card to Deval
Patrick. You can’t buy that kind of publicity.

I’m still upset at Matt Smith leaving as the Doctor after 3 seasons (and
four years). When it comes down to it I think he needed at least one more
year, but in fairness this is about average for people who have held the role.
Actors seems to be afraid to take the role for being typecast and identified
as the Doctor. I think that’s foolish. Being the Doctor means you
bring a ready made audience with you to whatever future role you have.
If you are trying to make a living in the entertainment business that is a
GOOD thing..
I’d like to see an actor willing to take the role for at least 5 years the
next time around. I think an older established actor would be more
willing to do so.

A lot of conservatives are crowing over Fox’s
RedEye at 3 AM outdrawing Morning Joe at 6-9 in key demographics .
The problem is Morning Joe isn’t competing with Fox, they’re not interesting
in beating them. They’re playing to be the show of choice along the
coasts from DC to Boston and from SF to LA.
Anyone who pretends otherwise is deluding themselves.
Finally i’m still amazed at the number of posts Instapundit gets up in one
day. What’s more amazing is he’s pretty much done this every single day
for a decade.
If or shall I say when this ends it will be interesting to see who replaces
him, if anyone. He has a lot of blogchildren but none have risen to his
level.
What will we do when he's gone?
See you next week